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How would I use ftp instead of sftp on my virtual hosts.

Posted July 21, 2013 9.2k views
I seem have set up working ftp but I'm having trouble with errors, especially The requested URL /installer.php/ was not found on this server.
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WyriHaximus July 21, 2013
Ok first things first what is giving that error as it doesn't strikes me as a FTP error, more a HTTP error?
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pablo July 21, 2013
I realize this doesn't answer your question, but have you considered using SCP instead of FTP?
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vic.palm2849 July 22, 2013
All I want to do is use ftp instead of sftp in filezilla to upload files to my wordpress site.
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vic.palm2849 July 22, 2013
What is SCP, will it do the same job
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kamaln7 July 22, 2013
SCP is pretty much the same as SFTP. If SFTP works fine for you, why do you want to switch to FTP?
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vic.palm2849 July 22, 2013
Because I have program that needs me to use ftp to work properly.
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vic.palm2849 July 22, 2013
Percifically for the installation process.
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kamaln7 July 22, 2013
What operating system is your droplet running?
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vic.palm2849 July 22, 2013
Ubuntu
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kamaln7 July 22, 2013
We have an article on installing FTP on an Ubuntu droplet: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-proftpd-on-ubuntu-12-04
How To Set Up ProFTPD on Ubuntu 12.04
by Etel Sverdlov
ProFTPD is a popular ftp server. Although it is not the lightest ftp server available for virtual servers, it is a powerful and configurable program. This tutorial explains how to install, configure, and access the ProFTPD server. It is written for Ubuntu 12.04.
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vic.palm2849 July 22, 2013
Thanks Kamal but I've done a new install for my droplet. The quick wordpress install but the only thing is I'm now having trouble with mysql. I'm getting this error: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

Any help would be apprecieated. I shall look at that article and see if it can help me.
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pablo July 22, 2013
After you installed MySQL, did you execute the following commands? 
sudo mysql_install_db

sudo /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation


See How to Install Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) stack on Ubuntu
How To Install Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) stack on Ubuntu
by Etel Sverdlov
This tutorial explains how to install Apache, how to install MySQL, how to change the root MySQL password, how to install PHP, and how to see what libraries are available. LAMP stack is a group of open source software used to get web servers up and running. The acronym stands for Linux, Apache ( the web server) , MySQL (the database), and PHP (the language). This tutorial is written for Ubuntu.
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vic.palm2849 July 23, 2013
Yes, I got that solved. But I'm still having trouble logging in with ftp to my virtual host accounts.
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kamaln7 July 23, 2013
What kind of trouble are you having? Do you see any errors? Are you able to log in but not able to upload any files?
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vic.palm2849 July 23, 2013
I'm trying to access my apache virtual hosts with ftp but I'm having difficulty getting it to work.
I've just restarted my droplet again from an image unbuntu 12.04. I don't know if you could take me through this to get this work.
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vic.palm2849 July 25, 2013
Getting permission denied whenever I try to do something in filezilla.
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kamaln7 July 25, 2013
What user are you connecting as? Where are you storing your website files?
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vic.palm2849 July 28, 2013
I'm using the one click wordpress user wordpress and my files are stored at var/www/
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